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(A) History of India
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York
Palgrave
2002
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| Series: | Palgrave Essential Histories
5 |
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2001058772.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2001058772.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001058772.html |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: Region and Civilization 1
- India and its history - Rule - Region and unity -
- Belief- Customs: the problem of caste - Islam and
- Indian plurality - Environment, technology and
- socio-economic change
- 2 Early India 27
- Cultures and peoples - Land - Social order -
- Communities - Kingship - Invasions and empires -
- Culture and its transmission - Production (slaves, rice
- and bankers) - Empires, religions and regions
- 3 Mediaeval India 55
- Regionalism - Empires: the Delhi sultans - Empires:
- Vijayanagara - Statecraft - Kings and sultans -
- Lords, officials and localities - Culture and belief-
- Production and society - Region versus empire
- 4 Early Modern India I: Mughals and Marathas 81
- The Mughals - Mughal rule - Early modern society
- and economy - Eighteenth-century politics -
- Merchants and states - Rival economies on the eve
- of conquest - Administration, 1580-1765: some
- comparisons
- 5 Early Modern India II: Company Raj 116
- The East India Company in Madras and Calcutta -
- The Company's rise to power - Revenue settlements
- under the Company - Transitions, 1770s to 1860s:
- trade - Law - Education - Features of Company
- rule - Some early modern Indian responses
- 6 Modem India I: Government 148
- Modern government - Councils and departments -
- Financial problems - Benevolence and intervention -
- Policy goals: Britain and India - Political policies
- under colonialism - Decolonization
- 7 Modern India II: Politics 177
- Modern politics - The Indian National Congress -
- Political Islam - Popular protest - Popular
- nationalism - Communal separatism - Partition -
- Community and class - The aftermath of colonialism -
- Roads to independence and to modern politics
- 8 Modern India III: Society 218
- Categorizations - New environments: Calcutta -
- Caste and class - Low-caste movements - Islam -
- Hindu and Sikh religious movements - Women -
- The British raj and after
- 9 Modern India IV: Economy 246
- Decline and European dominance - Values,
- de-industrialization, dualism, economic decline -
- Agriculture - Rural labour regimes - The 'landless' -
- The 'landed' - Land control - The use of credit -
- Access to the market - Purchasing power -
- Differentiation - Food and health - Colonial legacies
- 10 Epilogue: After Modernity? 296
- Caste, community and nation - A Hindu India? -
- Transitions and prospects.